{"id":106,"date":"2012-03-24T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-03-24T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T12:45:05","slug":"fix-to-error-installing-forever-for-nodejs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/fix-to-error-installing-forever-for-nodejs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix to error installing “forever” for nodejs"},"content":{"rendered":"

After doing “npm install forever” in a VirtualBox instance you may get an error like the following. This is caused by running the install from a folder shared with the host machine. Certain file operations fail when crossing the machine\/file system boundary in VirtualBox.<\/p>\n

\nnpm ERR! error rolling back forever@0.8.5 Error: UNKNOWN, unlink '\/vagrant\/node_modules\/forever\/node_modules\/winston\/docs\/winston\/transports.html'\n\nnpm ERR! Error: UNKNOWN, symlink '..\/ncp\/bin\/ncp'\nnpm ERR! You may report this log at:\nnpm ERR! <http:\/\/github.com\/isaacs\/npm\/issues>\nnpm ERR! or email it to:\nnpm ERR! <npm-@googlegroups.com>\nnpm ERR!\nnpm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-33-generic\nnpm ERR! command \"node\" \"\/usr\/local\/bin\/npm\" \"install\" \"forever\"\nnpm ERR! cwd \/vagrant\nnpm ERR! node -v v0.6.13\nnpm ERR! npm -v 1.1.9\nnpm ERR! path ..\/ncp\/bin\/ncp\nnpm ERR! code UNKNOWN\nnpm ERR! message UNKNOWN, symlink '..\/ncp\/bin\/ncp'\nnpm ERR! errno {}\nnpm http GET https:\/\/registry.npmjs.org\/wordwrap\nnpm http GET https:\/\/registry.npmjs.org\/colors\nnpm http GET https:\/\/registry.npmjs.org\/async\nnpm http 304 https:\/\/registry.npmjs.org\/wordwrap\nnpm http 304 https:\/\/registry.npmjs.org\/colors\nnpm http 304 https:\/\/registry.npmjs.org\/async\nnpm ERR!\nnpm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:\nnpm ERR! \/vagrant\/npm-debug.log\nnpm not ok\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After doing “npm install forever” in a VirtualBox instance you may get an error like the following. This is caused by running the install from a folder shared with the host machine. Certain file operations fail when crossing the machine\/file system boundary in VirtualBox. npm ERR! error rolling back forever@0.8.5 Error: UNKNOWN, unlink ‘\/vagrant\/node_modules\/forever\/node_modules\/winston\/docs\/winston\/transports.html’ npm … <\/p>\n
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